Gems From Bhagavan

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The Ajata school of Advaita says, 'Nothing exists except the one reality.

There is no birth or death, no projection or drawing in, no sadhaka

(aspirant), no mumukshu (one who desires to be liberated), no mukta (one who

is liberated), no bondage, no liberation. The One Unity alone exists

forever.' To those who find it difficult to grasp this truth and ask, 'How

can we ignore this solid world we see all around us?' the dream experience

is pointed out and they are told, 'All that you see depends on the seer.

Apart from the seer there is no seen.' This is called drishti-srishti vada,

or the argument that one first creates our of his mind and then sees what

his mind itself has created.

 

To those who cannot grasp even this and who further argue, 'The dream

experience is so short, while the world always exists. The dream experience

was limited to me. But the world is felt and seen not only by me but by so

many and we cannot call such a world non-existent,' the argument called

srishti-drishti-vada is addressed and they are told, 'God first created

such and such a thing out of such and such an element and then something

else and so forth.' That alone will satisfy them. Their minds are not

otherwise satisfied and they ask themselves, 'How can all geography, all

maps, all sciences, stars, planets and the rules governing or relating to

them and all knowledge be totally untrue?' To such it is best to say, 'Yes,

God created all this and so you see it.' All these are only to suit the

capacity of the hearers. The Absolute can only be one.

 

(Gems from Bhagavan, selected by A. Devaraja Mudaliar)